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April PAD Challenge: Day 14

Important Note (please read): It appears most of the poems posted for Day 13’s prompt have been wiped out of the system. There are currently only 49 comments. This means you’ll need to re-paste your Day 13 poem into Day 13’s prompt. It appears everything is fine with the first 12 days of the challenge however. I apologize for this happening, but this kind of scenario is also why I advised saving a copy before the challenge began.

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Today is Tuesday, which means two prompts.

First prompt: Write a love poem.

Second prompt: Write an anti-love poem.

Simple as that.

Here’s my attempt for the day:

“Both day and night”

I’ve been there onceor twice. Waitingfor water, ourhands clasp tightly.The electricflickers as wemake the bed soundlike a drum. Youdon’t realize hownormal you areuntil you want,or how specialuntil you get.

Guess we lost a few days of poems again, and I sure hope everyone saved copies. Next year I pledge to make offsite backups in my tracking tool, but this year, it’s every man, woman, or alien for him/her/itself.

So, repost of my Day 14:

Two Limericks: There And Back Again

There once was a young man from Sweden
Who married and then started breedin’
Got two kids, by and by,
Love like sweet apple pie:
"Try that in the Garden of Eden!"

He turned into a regular dude
And his fantasies strayed to the lewd
"I would tap that!" he’d sigh
Over Faith, Hope, and Sky
He’s still true — couldn’t get those girls nude.

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